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Old Xbox 360s deserve HDMI, too!

ArugulaZArugulaZ Registered User regular
edited March 2007 in Games and Technology
http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/29/microsoft-prepping-component-to-hdmi-adapter/

And Microsoft agrees! They're releasing an adapter for the original Xbox 360 that turns ordinary component output into a 21st century digital signal. If VGA is too washed-out and component is too muddy for you, congratulations... this should be juuuust right!

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  • IcewingIcewing Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Yeah, but component is analog, and HDMI is digital. I'm not saying I could personally visually tell the difference, but I don't see how this is anything other than ridiculous, given that the whole point of HDMI is to maintain a digital signal path.

    What I want is them to sell the hard drive-to-hard drive data transfer cable separately from the new 120GB HDD, anything else is a slap in the face.

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  • SageinaRageSageinaRage Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Yeah, how is

    Component -> hdmi -> tv

    better than

    Component -> tv

    The signal isn't going to get BETTER just by going through some wires.

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  • jclastjclast Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Isn't the current path digital (inside the 360) -> analog (convert to component) -> TV?
    If the new cable release plugs into the same multi-out wouldn't the path be digital (inside the 360) -> digital (HDMI) -> TV?

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  • DaedalusDaedalus Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Groan.

    This is a stupid rumor.

    The DAC in the current 360 can't output a digital signal. This is a hardware limitation; firmware updates ain't gonna fix it.

    The hardware to convert analog YPbPr to TDMI-based HDCP is let's just say "non-trivial". It would cost a lot of money, and it would be a box, not a cable.

    And there would be no benefit whatsoever, because it would be taking the analog signal to begin with.

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  • IcewingIcewing Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    As far as I've heard, by the time the picture signal gets to the multi-out, it's already analog. Something more technical than that, I can't provide, ask those people who know how to do up the pin-out diagrams and such. And just plain reasoning, if a new cable was all it took, why bother updating the hardware to have a new, dedicated HDMI port on it?

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  • ArugulaZArugulaZ Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    I'm just trying to figure out why that opening sentence was tacked onto my original post...

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  • MarlorMarlor Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    ArugulaZ wrote: »
    I'm just trying to figure out why that opening sentence was tacked onto my original post...

    It's Tube's birthday!

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  • ArugulaZArugulaZ Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Ah, gotcha. For a minute there I thought it was an early April Fool's joke.

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